For all the businesses, media outlets and other institutions we loved before

The theme for this special edition of The Suburban is “Buy Local,” which got me thinking from a nostalgic point of view about which landmark businesses, media outlets, political entities and other institutions continue to flourish and from that perspective what do we really miss? I think my 56 years on this earth, all in Greater Montreal, provides me with some good background to figure that out

Buy Local: The Bay, or as we call it in La Belle Province La Baie, remains our number one department store. High marks for the locales downtown, at Fairview Pointe Claire and Carrefour Laval.

We Miss: Eaton’s, or as they called it in Quebec before it left us – Eaton.

Buy Local: Provigo, through its larger stores which originally came here under the Loblaw’s banner, this brand offers the closest grocery experience to the United States. But let’s face it, they do not hold a candle to Price Chopper et al in the USA.

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